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Most informed people acknowledge that the financial mess began not with Republican deregulation but with liberal social engineering--exploited by Wall Street, to be sure, and unchecked by either party. A Republican House helped pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the most sweeping regulatory bill since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt. If liberals rule unconstrained, we won't recognize our country in 30 years. Lori Zimmerman, RED BANK...
...Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Gannett News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration reform act that included a provision allowing public colleges to offer in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants. If passed, the bill would have also opened a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who entered the country as children and who either complete two years of higher education...
...implanting microchips into HIV-infected people deemed to be purposefully infecting others with the life-threatening virus. "The chip would work similar to the chips they use to track birds and animals considered endangered species," explains the doctor, who also sits in the local parliament and proposed legislation to pass the human microchipping. "I don't expect many would be tagged, but after coming across so many HIV cases in my years of practice, something drastic needs to be done...
...Local parliamentarians say they have the support to push the legislation through by the end of the year. If passed, anyone found guilty by a court of law of deliberately spreading the virus could be fined up to 50 million rupiah ($4,000) or given six months in jail. "We need more than just information and condom campaigns," says Komarudin Watubun, the local parliament's deputy chairman who has been leading hearings on the proposal. "Papua is being ravaged by HIV/AIDs and the number of infected keeps going up." Komarudin says the controversial bill may not pass easily, but that...
While long, written general exams used to be standard across departments, Classics is the only one that still requires students to pass a comprehensive test of that length to graduate, according to Director of Undergraduate Studies Mark J. Schiefsky, who is on the review committee that will present the proposal to the full department next month...